{"id":23510,"date":"2026-07-31T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=23510"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T15:42:44","slug":"chef-shreds-rand-paul-after-sen-slams-vax-as-fauci-ouchie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=23510","title":{"rendered":"Chef Shreds Rand Paul After Sen Slams Vax as &#8216;Fauci-Ouchie&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5259324 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rand-Paul-Anthony-Fauci-7-20-21.jpg\" alt=\"rand paul anthony fauci\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rand-Paul-Anthony-Fauci-7-20-21.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rand-Paul-Anthony-Fauci-7-20-21-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rand-Paul-Anthony-Fauci-7-20-21-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A chef is slicing and dicing Republicans on X for their repeated attacks on <strong>Anthony Fauci<\/strong>, telling Sen. <strong>Rand Paul<\/strong> (R-KY): \u201cBy all means, keep bullsh*tting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chef <strong>Joe Gera\u2019s<\/strong> spicy take came in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/rand-paul-posts-about-dr-fauci-taking-a-walk-after-insisting-hes-not-obsessed-with-him\/\">a post the Kentucky senator made<\/a> Tuesday, ahead of the former top health official\u2019s contentious hearing on Capitol Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/new-rand-paul-sets-vote-to-hold-dr-fauci-in-contempt-of-congress\/\">in front of Rand\u2019s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember: Anthony Fauci was all about \u2018following the science,\u2019 until it came to vaccines. He was all about forcing you into compliance, even though we all knew infection was the best protection,\u201d Rand wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The caption was paired with what appeared to be an AI-made cartoon meme of Fauci, smiling in a suit getting his vaccine shot, with a headline: \u201cDid You Get Your Fauci Ouchie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gera, an award-winning Pittsburgh-based chef, called Paul out <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/redhotnerd\/status\/2082906199003955208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in his own Thursday afternoon post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou were vaccinated. Multiple times. How do I know?\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"ef1e3846f480a41b8cd44743d1f217ee\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You were vaccinated. Multiple times. How do I know?<\/p>\n<p>Because I cooked an event you attended in early 2022. The venue\u2019s policy was: if you wanted to attend unmasked, you had to be vaccinated (this didn\u2019t stop until April that year at this venue). You also had to RSVP well in\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DYTKWQ2YJK\">https:\/\/t.co\/DYTKWQ2YJK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chef Joe Gera \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\u26a7\ufe0f\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 (@redhotnerd) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/redhotnerd\/status\/2082906199003955208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBecause I cooked an event you attended in early 2022. The venue\u2019s policy was: if you wanted to attend unmasked, you had to be vaccinated (this didn\u2019t stop until April that year at this venue),\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou also had to RSVP well in advance and provide a negative COVID test before the event. So if you were there, you met those requirements. But by all means, keep bullsh*tting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gera added in another post: \u201c\u2026Your continued bullsh*t about this is beyond insane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He had a similar response to a post highlighting Sen. <strong>Ron Johnson<\/strong> (R-WI) claiming \u201cthese injections cause death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRon Johnson is also vaccinated,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/redhotnerd\/status\/2082908842803761308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gera wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The chef also slammed Health Secretary <strong>Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/strong> who had posted about Fauci this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis lying f*ck is also vaccinated. So are his kids, and his wife,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/redhotnerd\/status\/2083007112351736153\">Gera wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During his testimony, Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/watch-dr-fauci-pleads-the-fifth-over-a-dozen-times-in-the-face-of-rand-pauls-questions\/\">invoked his Fifth Amendment right<\/a> against self-incrimination more than 100 times and refused to answer any of Paul\u2019s questions for nearly 45 minutes, at one point telling Rand he had an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/dr-fauci-calls-out-rand-pauls-unhinged-obsession-with-him-in-fiery-opening-statement\/\">unhinged obsession<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chef is slicing and dicing Republicans on X for their repeated attacks on Anthony Fauci, telling Sen. 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